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Four doors into the Gold Coast live music scene.
The Gold Coast has a much wider live music map than the nightclub strip suggests. There is no single music strip, and the scene changes as it moves south through the city.
The venue map
Twelve rooms from Arundel to Coolangatta.
The Gold Coast circuit shifts between independent band rooms, late night clubs, arts spaces, creative precincts and coastal pubs.
Arundel + Southport + Surfers Paradise + Broadbeach
Band rooms, late nights and major performance spaces.
Miami + Burleigh Heads
Creative precincts, warehouses and broad pub stages.
Currumbin + Coolangatta
Dedicated live music and southern coastal shows.
Across the border
Tweed has its own venue circuit.
Tweed Heads and the wider Tweed sit outside Queensland, so YELO keeps those venues in a separate guide. Twin Towns remains the major year-round anchor, with beach pubs, river venues and valley stages extending the map south.
Festivals and bigger events
Plan beyond the weekly venue calendar.
The Coast’s major festival program adds outdoor stages, beachfront events and large precinct takeovers to the year-round venue circuit.
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